USA - Sr Consultant - IT - jc

The Sr. Consultant Application Rationalization will lead Vantive's Application Rationalization Team (ART) within ATLAS (Application & Technology Lifecycle Advisory Services).

This role is responsible for delivering decision-ready application portfolio outcomes across the enterprise by driving structured rationalization sprints, enabling strategic consolidation, optimizing application investments, and improving overall portfolio health.

The ART Lead collaborates closely with Procurement, Security, Infrastructure, and Business Owners to evaluate application utilization, contractual positioning, risk exposure, and capability overlap-ensuring actionable disposition decisions rather than analytical deliverables.

• Lead structured 2-week Application Rationalization (ART) sprints through four phases:
  • Discovery Application landscape mapping
  • Rationalization Cost, contract, overlap, and risk analysis
  • Disposition Decision
  • Actionability Assessment
• Assign disposition outcomes for each application:
  • Keep & Invest
  • Contain
  • Consolidate
  • Replace
  • Retire
• Enforce mandatory sprint exit criteria:
  • Documented disposition decision
  • Named application owner
  • Defined next step (Execute / Defer / Close)
  • Recorded risks and assumptions
• Measure sprint performance based on decisions completed, not applications reviewed.

• Partner with Procurement teams to map the enterprise application contract landscape, including licensing, renewals, and vendor consolidation opportunities.
• Perform portfolio assessments across:
  • Total Cost of Ownership (license, support, infrastructure)
  • Application utilization and business value
  • Functional redundancy and overlap
  • Risk posture and compliance exposure
  • Contractual positioning
• Maintain accurate application inventory by enriching CMDB/APM data with lifecycle information.
• Identify consolidation opportunities and support technical debt remediation initiatives.

• Collaborate with global application owners and business stakeholders to validate assumptions, data accuracy, and business impact.
• Facilitate alignment on complex disposition decisions across organizational boundaries.
• Present concise, executive-ready recommendations to leadership teams, governance forums, and Architecture Review Boards (ARBs).
• Participate in weekly intake triage to prioritize and route work into ART pipelines, DART queues, delegated decisions, or backlog.

• Support maturation of ATLAS intake processes, sprint cadence, and rationalization methodologies.
• Establish enterprise application lifecycle standards and governance practices.
• Contribute to reporting on portfolio health metrics, rationalization velocity, and cost avoidance outcomes.

• Bachelor's degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, or related discipline (or equivalent experience).
• 10+ years of experience in:
  • Enterprise Architecture
  • Application Portfolio Management (APM)
  • IT Strategy or Technology Transformation
• Proven success delivering enterprise-scale application rationalization initiatives.
• Strong understanding of rationalization frameworks such as Gartner TIME or equivalent disposition models.
• Expertise in:
  • Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) analysis
  • Business value scoring
  • Multi-dimensional portfolio assessment across large environments (500+ applications).
• Experience partnering with Procurement on licensing optimization, vendor consolidation, and contract alignment.
• Working knowledge of enterprise portfolio tools (e.g., ServiceNow APM/CMDB).
• Experience leading or coordinating globally distributed teams.
• Excellent communication and executive presentation skills with the ability to translate complex portfolios into decision-ready recommendations.
• Proven ability to operate in fast-paced, time-boxed delivery environments.

• Experience supporting large-scale IT transformation programs, carve-outs, or TSA/separation initiatives.
• TOGAF certification or equivalent enterprise architecture experience.
• Familiarity with cloud migration assessment frameworks (e.g., 6R migration model) supporting disposition decisions.

• Application Portfolio Rationalization
• Enterprise Architecture Strategy
• Technology Governance
• Vendor & License Optimization
• Stakeholder Management
• Agile Sprint Leadership
• Data-Driven Decision Making